Made a comic for my Intro to Art class that I presented today. I think it went over pretty well. Mr. Smith made a crack about me drawing him in it smoking something illicit or something (he might have been "reefering" or referring to the antagonist's toothpick). Puns for days, guys. Dude was a pretty awesome teacher. Crazy, but awesome. I don't know if taking two classes a semester by the same teacher is a good idea though. The comic was inspired by a lecture where he was talking about virtuoso musicians and wanting to have Carlos Santana play for him. Add a sprinkling of Sergio Leone, Kenneth Anger, Robert Crumb, Jack Kirby, whatever I have taken in in the visual sense for the past thirty years and a healthy smattering of black and grey and it is done. As a bonus for myself, I also drew in a small, shirtless boy smoking cigarettes with crossed eyes. Probably a cue to El Topo by Alejandro Jodorowsky. I think the first page and the one with dude melting came off the best. I passed one out to everyone in class, and only got one returned even though I told them that they should return them if they would not keep them. That is just not too shabby. That is about a ninety-seven percent success rate. Also, got another request for a collaboration on future work. Maybe I can get away with doing this.
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